City of Clowns

9 best books like City of Clowns (Daniel Alarcón): Masks, Coyote Doggirl, Lies in the Dust: A Tale of Remorse from the Salem Witch Trials, Red Colored Elegy, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, Faire Semblant C'est Mentir, The Lie And How We Told It, Tout Seul, Parting Ways: The Near-Life Experiences of Peter Orbach

Masks
AuthorFumiko Enchi
ISBN0394722183
Masks takes its name from the Noh masks of Japanese dramas, and much is made of spirit possession. This is a curiously elegant and scandalous tale of sexual deception and revenge. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikame, desires...
Coyote Doggirl
AuthorLisa Hanawalt
ISBN1770463257
Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...
AuthorJakob Crane
ISBN1939017335
...I desire to lie in the dust and to be humbled for it, in that I was a cause, with others, of so sad a calamity...

In Salem's dark days of 1692 and 1693, young girls pointed fingers and accused others of witchcraft, sentencing them to torture or even death. When the cloud lifted, and the accusations...
Red Colored Elegy
AuthorSeiichi Hayashi
ISBN1897299400
A true cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s


Seiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of...
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
AuthorBen Passmore
ISBN1945509201
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about...
Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
AuthorDominique Goblet
ISBN2844142338
Maintes fois annoncé, Faire semblant c'est mentir est le résultat d'un travail autobiographique réalisé par Dominique Goblet sur douze ans. Le temps joue un rôle complet dans ce livre où recherches stylistiques et narratives se mêlent au déroulement du récit. Faire semblant c’est mentir...
The Lie And How We Told It
AuthorTommi Parrish
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
Tout Seul
AuthorChristophe Chabouté
ISBN2749304296
An entire life spent alone on a rock. What's he do all day?

This graphic novel is stunning.

First published in France in 2008, Alone was just translated into English this year, and I'm grateful I had the chance to read this beautiful book. It's about a disfigured man who lives alone in...
Parting Ways: The Near-Life Experiences of Peter Orbach
AuthorAndrew Foley
ISBN0973703946
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